After the salvation achieved a day early, the President of Hellas Verona Maurizio Setti will finally break the silence at the end of a troubled season but which culminated in the best way. The Gialloblù number one will therefore speak from the club’s headquarters to comment on the championship which will end on Sunday with the match against Inter at the “Bentegodi” and to illustrate his future plans. You can follow the text LIVE LIVE of the press conference on TUTTOmercatoWEB.com.
2.00pm – The press conference begins
What is Verona’s situation today?
“The intent is to always have a more peaceful salvation, for 13 years I have been trying to have two balanced things, salvation and logical accounts. Mistakes are made, everyone makes them, in my figure we have always tried to make the football we can do, a football that normally leads to salvation, a result that the place deserves, but at the same time there is the risk of relegation, every year it is more and more difficult, there are foreign properties that arrive with important investments. Then there are properties that make important investments but are not successful, I am thinking of Sassuolo”.
Will Sogliano and Baroni stay at Verona?
“In my experience I understood that the contracts are there but they are worth little. We haven’t talked yet, we want to finish this championship well then we will start to evaluate what awaits us, together and with great serenity.”
In January there was a revolution, why?
“Normally Verona makes transfers, it didn’t happen in the summer transfer market because the offers arrived too late, the fundamental point is that the January revolution was made with four starting players, four who were reserves, and many who had never played and were out of the squad. Without revolution we would not have been saved, we decided this together with the coach and sporting director. Many players no longer wanted to stay here, the only one was Ngonge who however had too high a rating not to sell him, the others hoped. in better contracts or different situations. This club lives on capital gains so having not done them before I should have done them later.”
Is Verona for sale?
“There has never been anything concrete and true, just approaches, the club is open to opportunities, if the equity partner arrives, welcome, if a wealthy person arrives who can lead the club to improved results, welcome, I don’t have almond-shaped eyes, I’m not a fund, I don’t have the financial possibilities to compete in top six championships but I think I have demonstrated in recent years the football that I can afford to the maximum. What I can promise our fans is that we need to understand where this reality falls. I have achieved the record of consecutive championships in Serie A, so if no one has managed it before, we have to ask ourselves questions, then if someone arrives who can improve the situation and lead the club to fight for others goals I am open to.”
It was a complicated season also for the off-field events, Volpi, Parma…
“With Volpi we could have resolved the situation nine years ago but we have resolved it now. As far as Parma is concerned, it’s something that doesn’t concern me but it belongs to the early 2000s (Gilardino, Mutu, Vanoli), there was talk of an era in which in fact Parma and Verona belonged to a single owner. Even though we were right, we decided to settle this operation because taking away 8-10 million overnight is not an easy thing. However, now the club is perfect and I am very happy compliments alone but I think that from the day of the first conference to today we have made a lot of progress. If I have to give myself a rating it is high, not 10 nor 6 but somewhere in between.”
How much is Verona worth?
“There are many parameters, it is a club with a great history, with a splendid city, a base of fans, an important player pool, anyone who wants to approach still has parameters to respect, today it would be difficult to say a figure.”
In the summer, however, you were negotiating the sale of the club…
“The negotiations seemed real, true, it’s a good story but I’ll tell you about it later when I can. Football has changed, it’s no longer the nostalgic one of Mazzola or Rivera”.
So Verona won’t sell him?
“Today I feel alone, I have built important relationships with everyone, I think I can be at the table with any negotiation but at the moment there has been no approach with any investor”.
Sports center chapter, the “Bottagisio” is up for auction…
“It’s a possibility, we will evaluate what to do, taking a center like this involves choices because in any case you wouldn’t be able to put the whole family inside, it’s an opportunity that shouldn’t be underestimated. Today’s football is with headphones, the centers must have characteristics with a certain type, we’ll see.”
Next year there will be as many foreign as Italian properties, is it increasingly difficult to stay in the carousel?
“I think that on paper it’s as you say, the foreign properties that arrive have significant spending capacity and investments, I would be happy to have a partner, a partner. Then when you enter our environments I think I can still stay there. I think that this was the most difficult championship I faced. I would like to be in the shoes of those who have to slaughter themselves to save themselves. I hope the arguments about going to Serie B to get the parachute will end, it’s crazy bullshit, also because Serie B. it’s increasingly difficult. Then it’s true that in Serie A there are now truly shocking costs and it’s increasingly difficult that the rights are less and less and the expenses are more and more, we have to achieve what is self-sustaining football. “.